POL301Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Indirect Rule, Pulling Power, Sub-Saharan Africa
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Layout and the logic of the argument in the introduction; systematic. Understand history, why they made the decisions based on their particular historical context revisionist history: historical complexity of colonialism to independence. Independence comes, countries doing pretty well until the 1970s after on, the economic growth shrinks 1990s growth starts again. Autocratic rule; military rules 1990s return to the democracy. Great hopes at independence era quickly disappeared amid political decline: plethora of labels: prebendal, neo-patrimonial, personal rule, Revisionist history is one of relentless failure, sometimes with. Cultural/racial undertones: the crisis sets in by the 1970s, rulers who came to power were simply power-hungry, incompetent, repudiate the simple preconception; political/economic decisions reflect rational responses to the incredibly difficult environments. Failures were real, but political and economic developments were initially often rational responses to constraints and historical legacies.
